A Worth Township company is slated to merge with an international automotive company, but said the merger won’t impact its plan to add 181 jobs in the coming years.

Huron Inc., 6554 Lakeshore Road, will be merging with Dynamic Technologies, under the umbrella of Ardian. Ardian North America has manufacturing facilities across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary and China.

Huron Inc. manufactures engine and transmission parts.

The merger allows both companies to access a wider market. Huron Inc. is able to access customers that Dynamic Technologies contracts with and vice versa. Both are automotive suppliers.

“The automotive industry is a global industry,” said Jerry Solar, Huron Inc. president. “With this merger we will have (manufacturing) plants around the world that allows us to now compete at a global level. It makes our company more sustainable long-term.”

A press release issued by Ardian North America said the merger will strengthen all participating companies.

“For the past five years DT and Huron have been at the forefront of developing automotive engineering and materials solutions and have grown faster than the underlying automotive industry,” the statement said. “As a result, both companies have achieved steady sales growth and greater penetration of the automotive tubular market, expanding their respective manufacturing and engineering capabilities to meet the increasing customer demand for tubular solutions."

Solar said companies manufacture similar, but different products. He said by unifying they are able to broaden their customer base and diversify the products they can offer to their existing customers.

“It’s called cross-selling,” Solar said. “With this merger we will have a lot of cross-selling opportunity. Ford is our largest customer while (Dynamic Technologies’) largest customer is General Motors, so that allows us to access GM while in turn we can introduce them to Ford and help them expand their customer base.”

The merger will be official once the deal is closed at the end of June.

But the deal won’t impact or delay the company’s already standing plans to expand the facility in Worth Township.

In February the company announced it would expand its work force by more than 40 percent over the next three years. The expansion will include construction of a 40,000-square-foot building that would complement its 150,000-square-foot building. The $2.6 million building is slated to be complete by September.

The expansion follows new contracts that the company landed to manufacture parts related to turbocharger cooling systems. The work requires more workers and more physical space. The work orders are slated for 2019 and 2020 model car years, meaning the bulk of the new hires won’t come until 2019. But the company is gradually going to add on workers until then.

The manufacturing plant opened in 1943 and employs around 440 people.

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